Friday, April 19, 2013

Chechen Terrorist Networks Trace Back to the US State Department

With the latest developments regarding the suspects identified in the Boston
Bombing, reports of the alleged perpetrators’ Chechen heritage are being used by
the whole of the mainstream media to draw connections between the bombing and
Islamic terrorism. Even despite the desire of mainstream magazines like Salon for the bomber(s) to
have been white Americans, the narrative being paraded in front of the American
collective is currently satisfied with the meme of the Chechen Muslim
fundamentalist.

Reports that the suspects in the Boston bombing are
believed to be from the region near Chechnya may have caught some by surprise --
rebels in Chechnya are known for their violent and long-running campaign to
break away from Russia, but not for exporting terror to America.

But congressional researchers and foreign policy analysts have long
tracked a connection between the Chechnya region and Islamic extremists with Al
Qaeda and the Taliban. If the suspects are indeed Chechen, analysts told Fox
News they may represent part of a jihadi network which has made its way to
American soil.

The report also clearly states that “The
ties between major Islamic extremist groups and Chechnya are well-documented,
particularly pertaining to extremists' support for the separatists in
Chechnya.”

Likewise, it was stated by Michael Wines of the New York
Times, in an article published as far back as December 9, 2001, entitled “War on Terror Casts Chechen Conflict in New Light,” that
“Chechnya's guerrillas are indisputably financed by a web of Islamic charities,
banks and other organizations that have served as cash conduits for terrorist
groups.”

Wines also writes,

On one hand, the Wahhabi takeover here, like much of the
Chechen war, was clearly propelled by outside support. Residents say the
Wahhabis also had ties to a notorious training camp that indoctrinated Chechens
and foreigners alike in Islamic militancy and military
tactics.

There are strong indications that the camp and its leader,
a guerrilla from the Middle East known as Khattab, have ties to Osama bin Laden
and Al Qaeda.

Yet, although the narrative promoted by both FOX News and
The New York Times, as well as the vast majority of the other mainstream media
outlets revolves around the traditional notion of crafty Arab Muslims hiding in
caves and successfully plotting to outsmart one of the most sophisticated police
states in the world, as is almost always the case, these outlets are
fundamentally missing the most important piece of the
puzzle.

Interestingly enough, this missing puzzle piece was hinted at in
2001 by Michael Wines where he mentions that “the Wahhabi takeover” in Chechnya,
“like much of the Chechen war, was clearly propelled by outside
support.”

But what forces are propelling this continued
conflict?

Wines and other mainstream commentators may, of course, suggest
that the terrorists are “financed by a web of Islamic charities, banks and other
organizations that have served as cash conduits for terrorist groups.”

However,
the true source of funding, training, and arming may prove to be more difficult
to fit in to the traditional mainstream narrative surrounding Islamic
fundamentalist terrorism.

Chechen “rebels,” much like their
“rebel” cousins in Syria, are, in fact, receiving training, weapons, and
financial support via the very networks that so vociferously claim to oppose
them – the United States and British governments.

Indeed, in order to see
the direct connection between the U.S. government and Chechen terrorism, one
need only look toward the leader of the “Chechen rebels,” the Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic-Ichkeria, Ilyas Akhmadov, who resides
internationally by bouncing back and forth between the United States and Britain
all on the tab of the U.S. State Department ever since 2004.

Being more
willing to report on the treachery of the United States than the American press,
the Russian news agency KMNews was quite willing to pick up on the
American bankrolling of foreign terrorists. The agency wrote,

In early August, . . . Minister of Foreign Affairs of
the Chechen Republic-Ichkeria, Ilyas Akhmadov received political asylum in the
USA. And for his ‘outstanding services,’ Akhmadov received a Reagan-Fascell
grant,” including a monthly stipend, medical insurance, and well-equipped office
with all necessary support services, including the possibility of meetings with
political circles and leading US media . . .”[1]

KMNews then asked, “What about our partners in
the ‘anti-terrorist’ coalition?”

The agency then went on to cite the
official expressions of support by then-President George W. Bush, Condoleezza
Rice, and State Department spokesman Richard Boucher in order to acknowledge the
seemingly bizarre hypocrisy of these officials as they prosecuted a war OF
terror all across the globe. KMNews also pointed out that the generous grant
money provided to Akhmadov by the Reagan-Fascell Foundation is nothing more than
a thinly veiled payment to Akhmadov by the U.S. State Department. This is
because the Reagan-Fascell Foundation is actually financed by the U.S. Congress
via the budget of the State Department itself.

KMNews then tellingly
explained the motivation behind the funding and support of Chechen terrorist
networks. It stated,

Thus, the conclusion is obvious. Willingly or not,
Downing Street and the White House provoked the guerrillas to these latest
attacks [Beslan school massacre in 2004]. Willingly or not, Great Britain and
the USA have nurtured the separatists with material, information and diplomatic
resources. Willingly or not, the policy of London and Washington fostered the
current terrorist acts.” “As the ancients said, cui bono? Perhaps we are too
hasty with such sweeping accusations against our ‘friends’ and ‘partners’? Is
there a motive for the Anglo-American ‘anti-terrorist coalition’ to fan the
fires of terror in the North Caucasus?” “Alas, there is a motive. It is no
secret, that the West is vitally interested in maintaining instability in the
Caucasus. That makes it easier to pump out the fossil fuels, extracted in the
Caspian region, and it makes it easier to control Georgia and Azerbaijan, and to
exert influence on Armenia. Finally, it makes it easier to drive Russia out of
the Caspian and the Caucasus. Divide et impera! – the leaders of the Roman
Empire already introduced this simple formula for subjugation.

Yet
Akhmadov was not the only separatist terrorist that was given asylum in the
Western Anglo Zone. Akmad Zakayev and Aslan Mashkhadov (given asylum in London,
England) were also granted protection by the U.S. and Britain in 2003. Zakayev
is designated as the “special representative” of Mashkhadov.
In
addition, it is also widely known within European media, political, and
intelligence circles that certain leaders of the Chechen terrorist networks are
closely connected to the American CIA, if not agents outright. Shamil Basayev,
described as the “brutal Chechen field commander” by Webster Tarpley, happens to
be one of those individuals. It should be noted that Basayev was linked to the
Beslan school massacre as well.

As Michel Chossudovsky pointed out some years back, the
Chechen leaders Basayev and Al Khattab were trained in the CIA-run camps for
Islamic fighters in Afghanistan. In 1999, Putin rode to power on a backlash
against Chechen terror which he had in all probability staged himself – thus
judoing a long-standing US-UK capability. The key point is that the Russian
press is now openly denouncing London and Washington as centers for terrorist
control.

Tarpley continues by stating,

Around the time of 9/11, Putin had pointed to open
recruitment of Chechen terrorists going on in London, telling a German
interviewer: “In London, there is a recruitment station for people wanting to
join combat in Chechnya. Today — not officially, but effectively in the open —
they are talking there about recruiting volunteers to go to Afghanistan.” (Focus
— German weekly newsmagazine, September 2001) In addition, it is generally known
in well-informed European circles that the leaders of the Chechen rebels were
trained by the CIA, and that the Chechens were backed by US-sponsored
anti-Russian fighters from Afghanistan. In recent months, US-UK backed Chechens
have destroyed two Russian airliners and attacked a Moscow subway station, in
addition to the school atrocity.

Some aspects of Putin’s thinking were further explained
by a press interview given by Aslambek Aslakhanov, the Chechen politician who is
one of Putin’s official advisors. A dispatch from RIA Novosti reported
Aslakhanov’s comments as follows: “The terrorists who seized the school in
Beslan, North Ossetia, took their orders from abroad. ‘They were talking with
people not from Russia, but from abroad. They were being directed,’ said
Aslambek Aslakhanov, advisor to the President of the Russian Federation. ‘It is
the desire of our “friends” – in quotation marks — who have probably for more
than a decade been carrying out enormous, titanic work, aimed at dismembering
Russia. These people have worked very hard, and the fact that the financing
comes from there and that they are the puppet masters, is also clear.”
Aslakhanov, who was named by the terrorists as one of the people they were going
to hold talks with, also told RIA Novosti that the bid for such “talks” was
completely phony. He said that the hostage-takers were not Chechens. When he
talked to them, by phone, in Chechen, they demanded that he talk Russian, and
the ones he spoke with had the accents of other North Caucasus ethnic groups.
(RIA Novosti, September 6, 2004)

On September 7, RIA Novosti reported on the demand of
the Russian Foreign Ministry that two leading Chechen figures be extradited from
London and Washington to stand trial in Russia. A statement from the Russia
Foreign Ministry’s Department of Information and Press indicated that Russia
will put the United States and Britain on the spot about extraditing two top
Chechen separatist officials, who have been given asylum in Washington and
London, respectively. They are Akhmad Zakayev, known as a “special
representative” of Aslan Maskhadov (currently enjoying asylum in London), and
Ilyas Akhmadov, the “Foreign Minister” of the unrecognized “Chechen
Republic-Ichkeria” (now residing in the USA). (RIA Novosti, September 7,
2004)

Even more than the open harboring of Chechen terrorists,
however, is the fact that Western agents have themselves been caught in the act
of aiding and actually conducting acts of terror. Indeed, toward the end of
2004, it was reported by RBC that a British agent who was working for a Czech
Republic-based NGO was arrested for blowing up a Russian armed personnel
carrier. It was also reported that other British agents were caught “instructing
Chechen gangs in how to lay mines.”

Again, as Tarpley writes,

The RBC commentary goes on to cite the Economist of
August 19, which contained what RBC characterizes as a virtual ultimatum to
Russia. RBC notes that “the carrying out of such a series of coordinated, highly
professional terrorist attacks, would be impossible without the help of
qualified ‘specialists’.” RBC notes that at the end of August one such
“specialist,” working for an NGO based in the Czech republic, was arrested for
blowing up a Russian armed personnel carrier. Also, British “experts” have been
found instructing Chechen gangs in how to lay mines. “It cannot be excluded,
that also in Beslan, the logistics of the operation were provided by just such
‘specialists’,” notes RBC.

The RBC editorial concludes: “Apparently, by having
recourse to large-scale terrorist actions, the forces behind that terrorism,
have now acted directly to force a ‘change’ in the political situation in the
Caucasus, propagating interethnic wars into Russia. “The only way to resist
this, would be for Moscow to make it known, that we are ready to fight a new
war, according to new rules and new methods — not with mythical ‘international
terrorists’, who do not and never existed, but with the controllers of the
‘insurgents and freedom fighters’; a war against the geopolitical
puppet-masters, who are ready to destroy thousands of Russians for the sake of
achieving their new division of the world.” (RBC, September 7,
2004)

Regardless of the final connections regarding the Boston
Bombing, the alleged perpetrators, and the connection to Chechen terrorism, one
must always be cognizant of the relevant geopolitical facts in order to avoid
being swindled and wholly misinformed by clouded mainstream accounts of
narratives that are, themselves, entirely mythical.

The myth of an
independent (of Anglo-American control) and organic al-Qaeda is one that is
easily dismantled upon even a small modicum of research and investigation. From
the founding of al-Qaeda by Western forces in the 1970s to the use of death squads in Iraq, Libya, and now
Syria, it is clear that al-Qaeda is nothing less than a wholly owned
subsidiary of the Anglo-American intelligence community. It is, in effect, the
CIA Arab Legion.

If the United States government eventually blames the
Boston Bombings on Chechen terrorists, whether legitimately or intentionally by
virtue of a false flag, then such a situation is undoubtedly a two-edged sword.
If the American people are ever capable of understanding that international
Muslim fundamentalist terrorist networks – from the United States, Saudi Arabia,
Syria, Libya, or Chechnya – are entirely organized, directed, and controlled by
Western Anglo-American powers themselves, it may prove to be the end of the
imperialist foreign policy, domestic police state mechanisms, and austerity
measures. If the American people, however, continue to bite the bait of terror
and fear, there may be no limits to the depths the United States and the rest of
the world will sink.

Brandon Turbeville is an author
out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor's Degree from Francis Marion
University and is the author of three books, Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, and Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches
From a Dissident. Turbeville has published over 200 articles dealing on a
wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and
civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville's podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found
every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews.
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